The Kite Runner (2007)
66 %
Reviews Counted: 162 Fresh: 107 Rotten:55 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus:
Despite some fine performances, The Kite Runner is just shy of rendering the magic of the novel on to the big screen.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins 51 secs
Theatrical Release: Dec 14, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $15,690,103
Synopsis: Based on the international bestseller by Khaled Hosseini, THE KITE RUNNER is a fascinating historical epic set in 20th-century Afghanistan. In 1978, Amir (Zekiria Ebrahimi) and Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada) are young boys living in Kabul, where Hassan and his father, Ali (Nabi Tanha),... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Atossa Leoni, Said Taghmaoui
Director: Marc Forster
Screenwriter: David Benioff
Producer: William Horberg, Walter Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham, E. Bennett Walsh
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
Screenwriter: David Benioff
Producer: William Horberg, Walter Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham, E. Bennett Walsh
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
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05/06/08
Es un poco inevitable sentir que la película transcurre casi como un trámite, sin permitirle al espectador una aproximación mucho más sensible a la historia.
04/22/08
A skilfully made and subtly powerful film, with a disarmingly human protagonist whose efforts seem all the more real, given his weaknesses and the movie's authentic feel.
04/09/08
The Kite Runner will no doubt warm the hearts of its intended audience, but its nature is one of dubious flattery.
03/25/08
The two young boys are definitely the highlight of the film. Their friendship is truly felt, which makes the tragedy that befalls Hassan all the more powerful.
03/04/08
The Kite Runner is solid and competently made, but then those are words one always uses when a piece of art falls short of greatness.
02/28/08
Moments feel disappointingly scripted, so it's especially good news that many of its characters do not.
02/17/08
Friendship, loyalty, tragedy, and politics are themes sensitively and sometimes terrifyingly examined. But the film's hopeful spirit hits home despite the differences in our culture and language.
01/26/08
A heart-wrenching tale of lost friendship and redemption, "The Kite Runner" is as memorable as a movie as it is a novel.
01/20/08
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01/18/08
The Kite Runner is a film that both soars like its kite metaphor on the air currents of good storytelling, and falls to earth when its credibility is cut out from under it.
01/17/08
Alternately chilling and thrilling, The Kite Runner tugs at some emotional strings not often yanked with such frankness.
01/14/08
The narrative is a tapestry entwined from personal and political threads; the result is emotionally overwhelming
01/12/08
The Kite Runner is a curiosity in that it is a film driven almost entirely by its story, to the point that all the actors - save the fiercely patriarchal Homayoun Ershadi as Amir's father- seem purely functional, if not negligible.
01/12/08
...the film is entertaining with superb acting, But a far cry from making the impact that the book did. Why it minimizes the brutality of the Taliban is mystifying.
01/04/08
Top Critic
Forster's self-important direction submarines a film that begins well, but slips into melodrama and plods towards anti-climax.
12/29/07
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